The GenDip program is led by Professor Ann Towns, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and consists of a research group at the Department of Political Science of the University of Gothenburg as well as an international research network, the GenDip Network. The program is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Research Council.
Go to GenDip: Gender in Diplomacy webpageThe purpose of this dataset is to provide information on the gender of diplomats around the world, data that has so far been missing from existing datasets on diplomatic exchanges (Bayer 2006; Rhamey et al. 2013; Moyer et al. 2020).
For this dataset, only countries with at least 75% information on the gender of the diplomats is used.
The hope of the researchers is thus that the GenDip dataset will supply the fields of international politics and gender and politics – including the exciting and fast-growing research field on gender in diplomacy – with a foundation to be explored and developed in the quest to improve theories of diplomatic exchanges as well as of gender representation.